BILBAO - Get Up!

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🗓️ 11 January 2023

⏱️ 3 minutes

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BILBAO - "Get Up!" from the 2022 album Shake Well on [PIAS].

Like the beautiful city in Spain where they derived their band name, Bilbao create sunny, summery songs, showcased on their debut LP Shake Well. It's hard to believe then that the quartet themselves actually hail from Germany.

"There is the 'Bilbao' song by Yves Montand, a chanson that my parents used to play," bassist Jannes Eschrich shares about their moniker. "He tells of the place of longing Bilbao. Our band should also be a place of longing, a place that we conjure up in rainy Hamburg and that you can dream of."

Bilbao came together after the four friends attended the Reeperbahn Festival in 2019, writing and recording their first EP within a month. Despite the pandemic, they kept the momentum going, resulting in their first full-length, released in early 2022. Calling to mind bands like Bombay Bicycle Club and Two Door Cinema Club (and other groups that don't have "club" in their band name), Bilbao suceed in transporting you to sunnier shores with their buoyant, upbeat tunes.

This week's Songs of the Day were selected by KEXP DJ Kevin Cole, host of Drive Time, showcasing artists playing at this year’s ESNS (Eurosonic Noorderslag) Festival. ESNS is a European new music showcase festival and conference committed to presenting and supporting the best new and emerging artists. This year’s festival will take place January 18-21, 2023 in Groningen, NL.

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0:00.0	I'll tell you where to drive, and when I will arrive, think I'm stuck in nine to five,
0:13.0	The life between red lights, all the time the same old news got me feeling low, got me in between,
0:22.0	But every frequency they sell another dream, would you tell me what it's like to leave the soul and take her out?
0:37.0	Get up cause you know it, get up right up and go, and let up don't you blow it, get up and off you go,
0:48.0	Get up and it'll be there, get up right up and go, and now we'll meet you there, you gotta get up
1:04.0	Holding on direction, on the radio, some magic trees, oh it drains my soul, the brakes will break my knees,
1:14.0	I dream of riding the green wave, stick under open skies, to speed up and escape on August of the night,
1:25.0	But you tell me what it's like to leave the soul and take her out?
1:35.0	Get up cause you know it, get up right up and go, and let up don't you blow it, get up and off you go,
1:46.0	Get up and it'll be there, get up right up and go, and now we'll meet you there, you gotta get up
2:05.0	Is this really how this story ends?
2:10.0	Will I waste my life in traffic jails?
2:16.0	Can somebody tell me how you'd wake up?
2:24.0	Would you tell me what it's like to leave the soul and take her out?
2:40.0	Get up cause you know it, get up right up and go, get up and off you go,
2:51.0	Get up cause you know it, get up right up and go, and let up don't you blow it, get up and off you go,
3:02.0	Get up and it'll be there, get up right up and go, and now we'll meet you there, you gotta get up

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